There is the problem, why do I need to market it to a hge audience? All I need is to make enough to feed myself....GREED has brought us to this.
I have friends who moved to Cornwall a couple of years ago. They are making a perfectly good living off 16 acres, in fact it isn't 16 acres, because they are only working about 6 of them yet....no internet, no electricity other than their diesel genny, no running water...they are immensely happy and can sell all their produce at the farm gate and have people leaving orders when they run out.....
Perhaps the world needs to take a step back and just take a long hard look at itself.....
There is a little problem in that plan; there are 60 million people in the UK.. there's only 60million acres of land..
There isn't quite enough land for everyone to even have one acre each, before you take out all the land you cant grow anything on, or the land needed for roads and other public utilties, let alone the industry required to support even just agriculture; Farmers still need spades, you know!
Britain has had this small problem of a population greater than its agricultural potential for, oooh... about three hundred years; was what actually lead to the agricultural revolution and 'intensive' farming practices being pioneered in the 1700's;
Tearing down the agri-business infrastructure, that achieves a per acre productivity something in the order of 5 to 10x that of 'cottaging', the UK would be even less capable of feeding itself on the land available to grow food..
At a subsistence level, on the available productive land Britain has, it can probably just abut support a population 1/10th the size; then every-one might just about be able to cottage a couple of acres of productive land and feed themselves; might even just about support a couple of black-smiths and a miller or other specialist trade, for every two or three villages; welcome to the medieval life-style revival;!
Good news is that the working week would fall to an average of only about 12 hours labour, we would have an incredible amount of leisure time.. mostly in the winter, having worked from dawn till dusk most days of spring and summer, so loads of time off when its dark and pigging it down with rain, and we are huddled up in the cottage, wondering if we dare chuck another log on the fire to stay warm, or save it to cook dinner... and trying to make board-game pieces out of disguarded pig-bone to amuse ourselves in the twilight; or going to bed early; which would be good; with no medical contraception, child birth rates would skyrocket to around 12 children per couple, although without modern medicines, nine of them would probably die before they were twelve; but then even them that grew up, would be lucky to make it much past 50.....
How ironic that the 70's parody so contrarily actually inspired such idiotically idealized ideas of 'The Goode Life"!!!
Having grown up on what was pre-EU a relatively 'prosperous'; family farm... 60-million people, used to hot and cold running water, on demand TV and play-station, writing in to complain about a goat in Africa being slaughtered for dinner on a travelogue show!?!?! (Not even ruddy shown on screen!) Yeah.... well, I don't think we need worry too much about the population problem and food shortage for long! Wouldn't need the balloon to go up, or plague to strike to thin the herd a bit! Most would be wreathing on the floor clutching a kitchen knife being nuzzled by a pig, screaming "No! Leave me a lone! I cant do it! I'd rather Die!" and carry through on the promise!
The vogue for hippy idealists to 'move to the country' for their Tom & Barbera idiom; soon proved how few had the capacity for self sufficiency, and yet STILL how dependent they were on both modern technology and society to even try!
It's an untenable concept; it really really is.